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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1684 had left the corporation of Banbury 400 to build a workhouse and 100 for a stock to set the poor to work. 10 In … 1738 Captain Smith gave 112 12 s., for the benefit of the workhouse. By 1750 Francis, Lord North and Guilford, held 750 … 1756) for the education and support of children from the workhouse, and was operative by 1767. In 1825 the endowment …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a committee to help the overseers, especially over the workhouse. As the pressure of work increased new … by 1803 94 adults, 185 children, and 50 inmates of the workhouse were in receipt of regular relief, and in that year … for in that year Joshua Sprigge left money for building a workhouse. The money was not paid over until 1707 when a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a Wool Hall, and a house of correction; 112 there was a workhouse in Scalding Lane from 1643, replaced in 1707 by a workhouse on the east side of South Bar. 113 The town gaol, … chapels, and schools noticed elsewhere, included the Union workhouse in Neithrop (1835), the Mechanics' Institute in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Ipswich; containing, with the inmates of the union workhouse, 576 inhabitants. The parish comprises about 1500 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… repairing the church. On Barnet Common has been built the workhouse for the poor law union of Barnet, which comprises …
The Environs of London
… Smith, and some other trifling donations. In 1778, a new workhouse was built on the common, at the extremity of the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… the poor houses. 4 Several local people died in Langport workhouse from the 1840s, probably having been transferred … houses. 5 In 1852 the parish agreed to send two men to the workhouse if they became chargeable but to bring another out …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… county of Derby, and contains a population of 59,634; the workhouse was formerly the house of industry for 32 parishes …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… training college for masters of national schools. The workhouse for the union, pleasantly situated on St. John's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… been the same building. 66 In 1841 the overseers held a workhouse and two poorhouses on the southern edge of the …